BCC Newsletter Edition 12 – Cocktail Night

Hi to all our fantastic Brighton Cricket Club Family

The committee have been all working hard on the cocktail party on Saturday 18 February at the Half Moon Hotel.  You have been had notices out about getting silent auction items or auction items for the evening.  IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT EVENING FOR THE CLUB, SO IF YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY / ANYTHING THAT MAY BE ABLE TO HELP, THEN PLEASE ASK!  IF YOU DON’T ASK YOU DON’T GET!  It will be a great night and we expect a sell out, order your tickets from Ryan and James as per the link to the flyer.

There is a misconception in our community that our club is financially secure and wealthy, but without going over old ground and our Cricket Victoria Dividend being cut next year, we need to dig deep as a club and give the club the buffer in its cash reserves going forward so that we can invest in our facilities and programs, so such events are vitally important to the club.

Also next week we will be launching the Club Annual Raffle.  Every player and family at the club will get a book of raffle tickets to sell.  There will be some great prizes and the raffle will be drawn on the Senior, U16 and Hatch Presentation Night on 20 April 2012 (Venue TBC).

Milo and T20 this week

Milo as usual will be at Beach Road at 9am.  And T20 Blast this week will be at Carnegie South Cricket Club at Munro Avenue Carnegie South 10am.

Fixtures this week

Please see the calendar on the main page of the website for the game times and venues.  Let me reiterate to team managers and captains, it would be great if you could post some match summaries.  I cannot stress how easy it is!

Note for the seniors this Sunday:

Sunday – 1sts v Mt Waverley at Home

2nds v Mt Waverley away

3rds v Mt Waverley at Shipston Reserve

4ths v Kingston Saints at St Bedes College.

Some great Performances on the weekend

Steven Goodman continues to re-discover his form and belief with the bat, making a superb debut ton at Beach Rd v Box Hill in the 2nds.  It is great to see Steven proove to everybody that he is not just a very good keeper and can score the big ones.  There was great support from Andy Martin (53) and Nick Wanless (34).  The final score was 291.

Also making his top score for the club was the “old pro” Richard Pearson who helped rescue the 1sts after being in dire straights scoring 65.  David Salter continued his comeback in the 1sts with 42, Tesch, reliable as always with 43 and good to see our esteemed Secretary Ryan Sweeney scoring 30.  The final total of 203 is hopefully defendable against a good club in Box Hill.

Presentation Nights

Next week we will highlight all the Presentation Nights and Days for all the age groups (You will note above that the Hatch and U16′s will be on Friday 20 April 2012).

Past Players Function

A reminder to all past players and friends that the past players lunch is on Saturday 25 February 2012 at 12.30pm.

Jack and Stephen at the MCG for Bushrangers training

Today, Jack Nichols and Stephen Athaide from our U16 and our successful Hatch team are having a great experience going to Bushrangers training and getting a close up tour of the MCG courtsey of VSDCA sponsors Coca Cola.  Next week we hope for a report from them about their experience!

Nets

Due to some unauthorised use by some local schools, we are going to protect our investment (nearly $100K) in our nets and will be locking two of the nets going forward.  And we will be leaving two nets open for use.  Please speak to your junior co-ordinators on how to access the nets for training.

Happy cricketing!

Tas Tudor

Acting President